Game-cards.



c. M. STONE. GAME CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. II. 1916 IIENEWED ,IUNE20. |917- 1,234,954. Patented July s1, 1917.

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Attorney Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLINTON M. STONE, OF CON NERSVILLE, INDIANA.

GAME-CARDS.

Application filed -March 11, 1916, Serial N o. 83,448.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CLINTON M. STONE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Connersville, Fayette county, Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, pertaining to game cards, relates to cards to be used for a game in which players hold letter-cards and also hold purchase-cards, the object of the game being to be able to show down letter-cards to spell the word on which the game is based, the purchase-cards being employed in purchasing needed letter-cards.

The invention will be readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 illustrates a group of seven letter-cards which will spell the word America, the word on which the exemplifying cards are based.

Fig. 2 a group of four purchase-cards: and

Fig. 3 a perspective view of the complete deck of cards.

Assuming that four players are to be provided for, the deck is to contain four of each of the cards represented by Fig. 1, making twenty-eight cards. The deck is also to contain purchase-cards indicated in Fig. 2 in, preferably, the following numbers, viz., five of $10.00; six of $5.00; seven of $2.00, and eight of $1.00, making twentysix purchase-cards, the deck thus containing fifty-four cards. For a greater or less number of players or for a basic word having more or less than seven letters, the number of cards will preferably be different from that stated.

In playing the game the cards are shuffied and dealt three at a time to the players Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917. Renewed .Tune 20, 1917. Serial No. 175,975.

until all are gone. The players hold their cards secretly. Each player will therefore find in his hand a mixture of letter-cards and purchase cards, thoughl as a distant possibility a player may find his hand to consist entirely of letter-cards or of purchasecards.

It is the hope of each player to be the rst to show down cards spelling the word America Rarely, lbut possibly, some player might be able to show down the word immediately after the deal.

The player to the left of the leader must offer a letter-card for sale by exposing it face upward on the table. He uses his best judgment, in view of his other cards, as to what letter to put on the market. The other players, in leftward order, then make bids for the offered letter-card by laying down purchase-cards, the letter man accepting the highest bid, whereupon he takes the highest value purchase-card and the purchaser takes the letter-card, and the other players take back their purchase-cards. The next man then offers a letter-card, and the process of purchases is repeated, and so on and on until some player is able to show down the word America. The rules of the game may, of course, be varied.

I claim A deck of cards comprising a plurality of series of letter-cards, each card of a series representing the same letter of a basic word and the number of said series being equal to the number of letters in said word, and a plurality of series of purchase-cards, each series of purchase-cards comprising cards of the same value, combined substantially as and for the pur ose set forth.

CIAINTON M. STONE.

Witnesses:

HULDAH PEPPER, ELLEN TREssLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

